Arquivo

Boomerang is a bar in Belgrade like so many others, except that in addition to liquor and cigarettes, it deals in every type of prospect, whether legal or illegal. In addition to night vagrants and alcoholics, this bar in the capital of Yugoslavia also provides a meeting ground for drug lords and arms dealers, mercenaries, the police, communists, monarchists, taxi drivers, cleaning women, vamps, and every other type imaginable in a country devastated by war. “Misolevic belongs to the past of Yugoslavia, but the characters in the film are fruit of his legacy”, says director Dragan Marinkovic, referring to dictator Slobodan Milosevic, today a prisoner in The Hague, on trial for war crimes. Marinkovic’s characters are unfortunates with nothing to lose - even to life itself. Heroine Olga, for instance, was shot in the head, but recovered when they closed up the hole made by the bullet with a cork. In Boomerang, life is thus, intense, on simple terms.